Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Aug 1998 12:51:14 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???) |
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On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:
>I've just created a directory with 85000 inodes. An inode lookup (near >the end of the directory) takes about 10 ms on my dual PPro 180. >Extrapolating that to 8 million inodes gives us nearly a second. >Doing ls -lF on the directory is simply not possible: I killed it >after waiting 40 minutes.
In the future with 8 million of device in /dev/ we will divide /dev/ in directories. Dividing /dev/ in two directories would divide 1 sec in 0.5 sec of access. /dev/ has nothing of hardwired you can put your device also in /tmp/.
Why don' t you have all your files in / without directories?
Andrea[s] Arcangeli
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